A disconnect between smart home and home robotics offerings has been a factor limiting home robotics adoption. Pricing, availability, and consumer awareness have been factors too, but a new study from ABI Research finds that robot vendors increasingly see value in supporting the integration of their devices into smart home functionality. While challenges remain, this smart home integration will result in nearly 79 million homes around the world having a robot in the house by 2024.
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Despite the imminent danger from a fast- evolving cyber threat horizon, ABI Research finds that cybersecurity investment within the industrial control systems (ICS) market is severely lagging. Indeed, the consultancy expects investments to barely cross the $2 billion mark by 2025.
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Revenue from the sale of Artificial Intelligence (AI) chipsets for edge inference and inference training will grow at 65 percent and 137 percent respectively between 2018 and 2023, creating massive new potential revenue streams for chip vendors, according to ABI Research.
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Despite the smartphone market’s slowing growth due to saturating addressable markets, ballooning Average Selling Prices (ASPs), prevailing consumer price fatigue, and lengthening replacement cycles, all is not lost. In fact, the market will witness a 4.1 percent rise in shipments in 2019, growing to just under 1.6 billion for the year, according to ABI Research.
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After a content-starved market introduction, virtual reality (VR) is ready to thrive off a swath of new and compelling content choices. ABI Research forecasts total VR device shipments will reach 110 million by 2021.
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Shipments of mobile devices, including smartphones, tablets, and wearable cameras, with embedded machine vision technology, will increase from 45 million in 2018 to over 590 million in 2023, according to a new forecast by ABI Research. That amounts to a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 67 percent.
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The consumer Virtual Reality (VR) market continues to dominate in terms of both shipments and value chain revenue, and by 2023 the consumer VR hardware market will reach $5 billion in revenues, according to a recent report by ABI Research.
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Today’s machine-to-machine (M2M) module market was more than 20 years in the making, and the casual technology observer may be forgiven for thinking that there is nothing much that is new to say about it. But in a new report, ABI Research reveals the changing fortunes of cellular M2M module vendors.
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The deployment of smart vending technologies will surge in the Asia-Pacific as high-tech unmanned retail continues to attract major investment, ABI Research forecasts. The demand for technology-driven frictionless retail experiences, combined with cheap production costs and limited data privacy barriers, is driving rapid adoption in China, Japan, and South Korea, leaving the rest of the world behind.
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So-called "UnTelco" opportunities for communications service providers (CSPs) in the smart home will reach $11.2 billion by 2022, though it will not be an easy journey, according to ABI Research.
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Hybrid industrial cloud adoption will more than double over the next five years at a respectable 21.1 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR), according to a new report by ABI Research. The virtualization of business-critical infrastructure is transforming the production and distribution of goods and services throughout the supply chain as industrial organizations shift focus from private to public and ultimately hybrid cloud deployments that connect and integrate on-premise resources with cloud resources.
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There is a growing interest in how cognitive systems can improve robotic solutions, both in the incremental sense of improving productivity and the strategic sense of adding entirely new capabilities, according to a new report from ABI Research.
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The rapid and increasing number of worldwide 4K flat panel TV shipments over the past few years is contributing to the overall growth of the global flat panel TV market, according to a new forecast from ABI Research. 4K TV units account for more than one-third of the total flat panel TV units sold in 2017. The strategic advisory firm forecasts that 4K flat panel TV shipments will surpass 102 million in 2018, representing 44 percent of total global flat panel TV shipments.
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Nearly 10 percent of industrial smart glasses and standalone virtual reality (VR) devices will have a 5G connection by 2026, according to a new forecast from ABI Research. Additionally, augmented reality (AR) is growing in presence in industrial applications such as smart manufacturing and remote operation of industrial machinery.
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Despite high ambitions for the smart manufacturing sector, mobile service providers (MSPs), are currently secondary players in this market, according to a new forecast from ABI Research. Consequently, their short-term opportunity in manufacturing is forecast to be only $2.6 billion by 2022,
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The growing power of smart home devices and services will increasingly extend their influence outside of the home and into wider smart city programs, according to a new report from ABI research.
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In the face of increasing pressure from over-the-top (OTT) video services, pay TV providers are stepping up their game, according to new research from ABI Research. Despite the competition from OTT video services, the worldwide pay TV market has been growing at a steady pace. ABI forecasts that the global pay TV market -- which includes satellite, cable, and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services -- will generate $295 billion in 2022.
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The global fixed wireless broadband market will grow 30 percent in 2018 and will generate $18 billion in service revenue, according to a new report from ABI Research. As 5G fixed wireless broadband access is set to be launched in North America in 2018, it is set to expand and provide consumers with better quality service in the years to come.
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ABI Research estimates global smart glasses shipments for automotive industry use will hit 1.7 million in 2022. The total automotive AR market is expected to grow at CAGR of 177 percent during the forecast period and reach $5.5 billion in 2022.
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While E-commerce and digital marketing have proven to be effective platforms, Virtual Reality (VR) is the next innovative technology that will improve and impact the retail and marketing sectors. ABI Research forecasts that VR in retail and marketing sectors is expected to generate $1.8 billion in 2022.
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